Aretha Franklin & Amazing Grace - Pop Screen 158

This week, Pop Screen takes you to church. On its release, Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace became the biggest-selling gospel album of all time, but it was only supposed to be half the story. Originally, it was going to accompany a concert film with the Queen of Soul going back to her roots at an LA baptist church - but that fell through for the dumbest imaginable reason.

To find out what that was, join Aidan and Graham as they discuss Amazing Grace's long road to its 2018 release, the reasons why Franklin refused to see it finished during her lifetime, the cameos from two members of the Rolling Stones and a long digression about the show Cop Rock for some reason. We also discuss what makes '60s soul and '70s fashion so appealing, and discuss our favourite secular Aretha songs.

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